Alistair Speirs

About Alistair Speirs

I\'ve had the opportunity to help grow Office 365 from a beta to a multi-billion dollar business and now work on Microsoft\'s next breakthrough cloud service - Microsoft Azure. I am passionate about lowering the barrier to entry of cloud services, by streamlining readiness, on-boarding, deployment and ongoing management experiencess and helping product teams be great partners to IT professionals and developers as they drive digital transformation initiatives in their own organizations.

Experience

1. General Manager - Azure Infrastructure

   Microsoft

   Sep 2025 — Present · Redmond, WA, US

   Driving global strategy across cloud fundamentals like datacenters, AI infrastructure, security, and sovereignty, while pushing the frontier of computing through work in silicon, supercomputing, quantum, and advanced science as part of Microsoft’s Commercial Cloud & AI marketing team.

Education

• The University of Queensland

  Bachelor of Science

Skills

• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Cross-Functional Coordination
• Enterprise Software
• Technical Product Management
• Enterprise Architecture
• Software Engineering
• Software Project Management
• Professional Services
• Distributed Systems
• Saas
• Technical Marketing
• Usability Engineering
• .net
• Office 365
• Microsoft Solutions
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Microsoft Technologies
• Program Management
• Architecture
• Portals
• Operations Management
• Web Applications
• Product Management
• IT Strategy
• Pre-Sales
• Technical Training
• Web Services
• Solution Architecture
• Windows Azure
• Partner Management
• Global Marketing
• Sharepoint
• Soa
• Agile Methodologies
• Management